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Sunday, June 10, 2012

"Master, please" by Cindy Sheehan

“Master, please”

Cindy Sheehan

"Free elections of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves."

Herbert Marcuse, 1964

"It seems that our president is a
totally amoral psychopath, and the revelation of his condition has not hurt his
popularity. Apparently the president governs psychopaths too, because too few
of them will say or do anything to oppose his commitment to breaking the law,
violating the Constitution, and the word of the god he claims to believe in.”

Ever get the feeling you’re
living in a nation where the (s)elected officials revel in their megalomania and
think we should, too?

Recently the paper of the
status quo, the New York Times, gave
space to the braggadocio of several members of the current Dictator for the 1%. Some "unnamed sources" boasted with mucho machismo, and not one ounce of shame, about Obama’s Hit List (which is called a “Kill List” by the establishment) and
the meetings the President with a Grim Reaper Fetish chairs each and every week
to put his Imperial Imprimatur on the execution orders.

We also learned that the
U.S., for Israel, has been waging cyber-warfare on Iran for years and, of
course, instead of being outraged that the U.S. Constitution, international
law, and civil liberties are being severely breeched, the political
establishment is outraged at the people who would “leak” such information. Ever
the conman, Obama feigned fake hurt at a press conference on Friday, June 8th, that someone
would even suggest that “my White House” would intentionally leak such things.
I call “B.S.” on that one: the arrogance of the Bush regime has been vastly
surpassed by the conceit of the Obama scandal, and the only difference is,
there has been little protest against Obama’s Hit List.

I was one of the leading
Impeach Bush/Cheney activists for a few years and the only thing that really happened was that the Democrats hastened my
political disillusionment and enlightenment by refusing to investigate the Bush
crime regime, a policy that Obama’s DOJ continues to this day. Before I was
arrested in his office with about 49 other people demanding impeachment be put "on the table" in July of 2007, I was a
welcomed guest of John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary Committee.

At least two national peace
organizations (Voters for Peace and Veterans for Peace) have passed resolutions
calling for the impeachment of Barack Obama and I know the Veteran’s resolution
has the same language as the one passed calling for the impeachment of Bush,
but there is no large national movement on the left (or, as far as I know, the
right either) advocating for this Constitutional “remedy.”

Now, that I have been around
the block more times than Carter has pills, I am thinking that the “Founders”
of this country set up this whole impeachment thing to fail in the first place.
I do not belong to the Cult of the Founders, or the Constitution because I
think the Founders were men who belonged to the 1% of their time and the
Constitution was written by them to keep their money and power secure. Of
course, the Bill of Rights was a “liberal” addition, but the descendants of the
original 1% have made sure that document would be in “paper only.”

Even though I believe probably every US administration should be impeached, here is why I have become an impeachment skeptic:

Firstly, our elections have
become so compromised by money, cheating, propaganda and apathy and the person who
ascends to the highest post in our land, can only be there with the consent of
the elite. The Electoral College effectively took what the Founders considered
such an important event out of the hands of the unwashed masses, anyway. If you think
your vote counts for anything except giving your consent to be misruled, you’re
participating in some magical thinking of your own.

Secondly, the process of
impeachment has been used only a few times and, as anyone with an average IQ
could predict, the process has been motivated by pure political partisanship.
The investigation of Nixon and his subsequent resignation came the closest to the impeachment tool actually working, except the criminal removed himself to not destroy the
apparent legitimacy of an office he used as his own private crime syndicate (as
have every other POTUS—some are just clearly worse than others). In recompense for
his resignation, Nixon was pardoned for his crimes and one of his biggest co-conspirators, Henry Kissinger, is still alive and well and prospering.

Finally, We the People should
have the power to remove a “leader” from office and advocating for the
establishment to police itself for real crimes is unrealistic. We shouldn't have to keep begging "Master" for a few crumbs from his table. We the People
were not trusted by the original elitists because they were afraid of our
power, so the entire country is set up where only the political establishment
and its puppet masters can change anything. The international community has been effectively neutralized by the global elite and to be searching for justice and peace in those institutions is a waste of time, too.

Margaret Kimberley hit the
nail squarely on the head with her analysis of psychopathology and we who are
sane-o-pathic seem to be on the same reasoned and healthy path.

Had enough? Ready to do
something besides vote and bitch; bitch and vote? Non-violent revolution is our
only option if we really want the world to be a better place for us—all of us.

Instead of transitioning the
righteous and grassroots protest into a failed political campaign to benefit
Democrats, activists in Wisconsin could have organized to shut down the state until their demands were met. Similarly from the right, many well-meaning and well-intentioned people fell for the Ron Paul (R) hype machine only to be crushed when his campaign predictably failed and his progeny, Senator from Kentucky, Rand (R-wacko), enthusiastically endorsed the Republiscum candidate, Mitt Romney. US federal politics will always fold, spindle, and mutilate one if you actually have compassion and a brain.

The key is working outside
the system to create healthy communities of our own—the 1% own and control the
status quo and know how to manipulate it to its own advantage one-hundred percent of the time.
If the 99% owned and controlled our own systems, we could do the same.

To close, I recently received an email from a supporter who urges me to throw my support to Democratic politicians and candidates so I can have "hope" again. How cynical is a "hope" that relies on the Democratic Party for existence? Is it not possible to have "hope" if one does not support a violent and greedy institution? Does this person think I wallow in bed all day, "hope-" less now that I have seen clearly the problem? And what is "hope" anyway besides a manipulative campaign slogan?

Nope to "hope." Positive action in the direction of Peace and Justice and stopping occasionally to "smell the roses" and avoid the stench of the status quo is what we need in my very humble opinion!

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